Bug 20702

Summary:	Perl IO::Socket::SSL Hostname Matching Security Bypass
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Vladimir Lettiev <crux>
Component:	perl-IO-Socket-SSL	Assignee:	viy <viy>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	at, cas, crux, ender, lav, ldv, mike, qa_viy, shaba, viy
Version:	unstable	Keywords:	security
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/35703/

Description Vladimir Lettiev 2009-07-07 20:11:30 MSD

A vulnerability has been reported in IO::Socket::SSL, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the certificate hostname matching when no wildcard was given, which can be exploited to bypass the hostname verification.

Fixed in 1.26

Comment 1 Vladimir Lettiev 2010-04-24 11:14:29 MSD

fixed

Comment 2 Vladimir Lettiev 2010-04-24 11:14:55 MSD

closed